Category Transport Issues

JetBlue growing once again in Florida

JetBlue will restore nonstop service between Fort Lauderdale and both Guayaquil and Philadelphia in July. The airline recently began service between Orlando and Portland, Maine and will begin service between Fort Lauderdale and Guatemala City later this month. this recent growth came after the airline pulled down much of its point-to-point service to Florida in […]

Spirit flies out of bankruptcy with several new routes

Spirit Airlines, the largest air carrier based in Florida has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. As part of its revised business plan, it will begin offering more upscale amenities to appeal to business travelers as well as offering sub-daily frequencies to smaller markets. Spirit’s smallest aircraft is the Airbus A319 which seats about 150 […]

New Howard Frankland Bridge opening today!

some renderings of the new span that should alleviate traffic between Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties from FDOT.

More service cuts to flights to Canada from Florida

Flair Airlines will be ending nonstop service from Fort Lauderdale to Kitchener/Waterloo on April 7 and reducing Toronto- Fort Lauderdale flights to sub daily. Photo via Wikipedia Commons by AeroMcFly220 This is in addition to all of the cuts to flights from Canada to Florida we discussed in this video on Monday:

Air Canada and WestJet reducing Florida flights

A video – and it’s not just the tariffs doing this…

Canada doing high-speed rail

But here in Florida and throughout the US we can’t

What is going to happen to Silver Airways?

Silver Airlines which is the only airline offering intra-Florida services that aren’t specifically tied to a hub (Southwest flights from Orlando, American flights from Miami and Spirit flights from Fort Lauderdale are run in order to feed connections not to carry origin & destination passengers from those cities to other Florida ones) has filed for […]

Frontier and Allegiant respond to Spirit bankruptcy with new Florida routes

As Fort Lauderdale-based Spirit Airlines flies into Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection seeking to change its business model, the United States two non-bankrupt largest Ultra-low cost carriers, Allegiant and Frontier are adding many routes from Florida. Allegiant: Destin-Fort Walton Beach to Akron/Canton/Washington-Dulles Fort Lauderdale to Columbia SC/Huntington WV Jacksonville to Akron/Canton/Grand Rapids Orlando-Sanford to Columbia SC […]

Spirit Airlines files for CH 11 bankruptcy- here’s the plan for the future

Spirit Airlines, the largest carrier based in Florida filed on Monday for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Those comes in the wake of a failed merger with JetBlue which was blocked on antitrust grounds.

20 years ago this month – US Airways big Fort Lauderdale gambit (which never got a chance to breathe!)

The closure of United’s Miami hub after 9/11 and the failed attempts to merge United and US Airways left the Star Alliance without a South Florida hub. In addition American Airlines, who dominated Miami and had crushed the competition from United in the 1990’s down the road in Miami, had moved aggressively into Fort Lauderdale […]